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Nikhil Menon on Planning Democracy

Ideas of India

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Are We Just Doomed?

I think Mahalanobas must be lauded because even our ability to criticize the second five-year plan comes from the availability of good data and measurement. But I have a different question for you in terms of thinking about these things in a longer arc rather than just the present moment. Are we just doomed are these state led big data technocratic exercises always going to be weaponized in some shape or form? We should just look at private data collection like Rukmini, Shrinivasan says.

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